Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including literature, film, documentary, and (music) video performance. The first section, "Political Agency," stresses instances where the performance of ethnicity/gender ultimately aims at a liberating effect leading to more autonomy. The second section, "Diasporic Belonging," explores the different kinds of negotiations of ethnic performances in multi-ethnic contexts. The third part, "Performances of Ethnicity and Gender" scrutinizes instances of the combined performance of ethnicity and gender in novels, films, and musical performances. The last section "Cross-Ethnic Traffic" contains a number of contributions that are concerned with attempts at crossing over from "one ethnicity into another" by way of performance.
Author(s): Bettina Hofmann, Monika Mueller
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 248
City: London
Tags: Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Gender Studies
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives
PART I: Political Agency
1 Old Print Media, Radical Ideas, and Vernacular Performance in the Life and Work of Robert Wedderburn and Henry Box Brown
2 Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Performing Migrant Identity in Two Italian African Memoirs
3 Recovering Queequeq’s Body: Performing Alterna(rra)tives in the Borderlands
4 Limning the Limit or Notes toward an Outline of Activist Performance at the Limit
PART II: Diasporic Belonging
5 Performing Ethno-Cultural Identity in Réka Pigniczky’s Autobiographical Documentary Incubator (2009)
6 Diasporic Bollywood: Fusionist Practices and Gender Performativity in Deepa Mehta’s Bollywood/Hollywood
7 Asian American Family Memoirs and the Performance of Identity and Readership in Transcultural Societies
PART III: Performances of Ethnicity and Gender
8 Gallo-Gallina: Gender Performance and the Androgynous Imagination in Elena Poniatowska’s Hasta no verte Jesús mío
9 Performing Identity as a Challenge to Heteronormativity: Public and Private Spaces in R. Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend
10 Performing Butterfly: Medial Constructions of Ethnic Identity
PART IV: Cross-Ethnic Traffic
11 Asian American Literature and Literary Theory: Onoto Watanna’s Panethnic Impersonation in Miss Numė of Japan
12 Performing Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community in Michael Bond’s Paddington Here and Now and Don’t Eat the Neighbours
13 The Performance of Ethnicity in Bollywood-Style Music Videos by Cornershop and by Ramesh B. Weeratunga
14 Performing Poetry: Langston Hughes, “I, too” and Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
List of Contributors
Index
